Discovery Updates 12/11/2017

Primo

Below is a list of major Primo updates and ongoing issues. We will continue to send out reports like this to keep everyone updated on the progress and resolution of major issues.

Major updates from 11/18 to 12/11

• Updates to the "Text to phone" feature, including the addition of location information
• Uniform title now hyperlinked on full record page, allowing users to find other records with that field
• Addition of the "Add results beyond Temple University Libraries" option to null results pages
• Ongoing troubleshooting of electronic resources in the Library Search, including an audit of vendor-supplied records 

Known issues that we are in the process of reviewing 

• Improvements to the search relevancy results
• Issues with title-level results for serials, especially newspapers and magazines (ex. New York Times, Newsweek)
• Improvement to sign-in banners in Primo

For additional issues, see the TUL Web Support issue tracker: https://tulibdev.atlassian.net/projects/WEB/issues. 

Blacklight

We are currently working on a sprint to improve and refine the metadata mappings and indexing for our Alma catalog records in Blacklight, including display, search, and facet fields. We're also in the process of building the underlying infrastructure to search for Primo Central Index records (i.e. the article index) in Blacklight. 

To view the current prototype, see http://libqa.library.temple.edu/catalog (please note that you will need to be connected to the Temple network via an ethernet cable or VPN). For further details on the development of this project and upcoming milestones, see the Discovery project pages on Confluence.